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FY2026 NIH awards · Principal investigators

Pathology at University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester

Worcester, MA

Funding
$6.3M
$6,307,509
Awards
14
FY2026 NIH awards in Pathology
Principal investigators
12
11 lead a grant here, 1 co-investigator
Department rank
#44
of 90 · Ranking
  • NIH names only the principal investigators on an award, so this page lists only them. The department is the award's: it is where ScienceDex counts the award, not a list of the department's members.
  • These are the awards in the Pathology row of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester page.

Leads a grant in this department

11 contact PIs of these awards, by the funding they lead. Other principal investigators on an award are listed with it and under Co-investigators.

  1. Joonsoo Kang

    Leads 2 awards · $1,524,732

    • 5U01AI168640-05Department: NIH department code
      Parsing cholesterol metabolite regulation of skin immunocytes in children to identify archetypes of human neonatal immune system

      Principal investigators: Joonsoo Kang (contact PI), Andrea Reboldi, Mehdi Rashighi

      $816,899
      award amount
    • 5R01AI158832-05Department: NIH department code
      Cholesterol metabolites coordinate skin barrier immunity centered on innate dermal gammadelta T cells programmed to produce IL-17

      Principal investigators: Joonsoo Kang (contact PI), Andrea Reboldi

      $707,833
      award amount
  2. Kiera L. Clayton

    Leads 2 awards · $1,022,935

    • 5R01AI189316-02Department: NIH department code
      Mechanisms of HIV accessory protein mediated control of NK cell function
      $813,560
      award amount
    • 5R21AI189245-02Department: NIH department code
      Discovery of viral and host pathways that protect HIV-infected macrophages from NK cell ADCC
      $209,375
      award amount
  3. Jiann-Jyh Lai

    Leads 1 award · $595,972

    • 5R01AI185024-02Department: NIH department code
      Immunobiology of a novel human DAMP receptor, its murine homolog, & their ligand
      $595,972
      award amount
  4. Kenneth L Rock

    Leads 1 award · $593,865

    • 5R01AI173076-04Department: NIH department code
      Novel histone-binding C-type lectin receptors and their role in sterile inflammation and tissue injury
      $593,865
      award amount
  5. Gowthaman Uthaman

    Leads 1 award · $586,250

    • 5R01AI187460-02Department: NIH department code
      Generation & Regulation of Tfh13 cells that drive Pathogenic IgE in Allergy
      $586,250
      award amount
  6. Susan L Swain

    Leads 1 award · $586,086

    • 5R01AI179760-03Department: NIH department code
      How Distinct Age-Associated B Cell Subsets Can Protect the Aged from Influenza
      $586,086
      award amount
  7. Eric S Huseby

    Leads 1 award · $530,890

    • 5R01DK138198-03Department: NIH department code
      Influence of MHC-II polymorphisms on autoimmune T cell repertoire development and function
      $530,890
      award amount
  8. Tianmin Fu

    Leads 1 award · $418,750

    • 5R35GM147465-05Department: NIH department code
      Molecular Mechanisms of V-ATPases: Assembly, Biogenesis, Regulation, and Function
      $418,750
      award amount
  9. Andrea Reboldi

    Leads 2 awards · $335,000

    • 1R21AI197056-01A1Department: NIH department code
      Multikingdom generation and tissue maintenance of splenic IgA plasma cells
      $251,250
      award amount
    • 5R03AI190223-02Department: NIH department code
      Molecular and metabolic characterization of gut stromal cells underpinning efficient intestinal B cell response
      $83,750
      award amount

    Also a principal investigator on 5U01AI168640-05, led by Joonsoo Kang; 5R01AI158832-05, led by Joonsoo Kang.

  10. Katherine Lauren Kruckow

    Leads 1 award · $75,520

    • 1F32DK146680-01Department: NIH department code
      Role of TNF signaling in CX3CR1hi macrophages in the regulation of TLS function
      $75,520
      award amount
  11. Paula Grasberger

    Leads 1 award · $37,509

    • 5F31AI184128-03Department: NIH department code
      Characterizing mechanisms by which HIV-infected macrophages neutralize NK cell effector functions to facilitate their persistence
      $37,509
      award amount

Co-investigators

Named as principal investigators on these awards, which someone else leads. They may belong to another department or institution: their own, below, comes from the awards they lead.

  • Mehdi Rashighi

    Co-investigator on 5U01AI168640-05, led by Joonsoo Kang

    Own institution and department: not known. ScienceDex has no NIH award this person leads as contact PI.